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2007 Meetings

November17th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we will be getting an overview of the new Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. We will also be reviewing some cool free software applications.

October 20th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we had an overview of NeoOffice, a freeware office suite, an iTunes add-on called Sizzling Keys, a look at some cool iTunes features and an iPod Classic show & tell.

September 15th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we will be getting an overview of Screen Mimic and iShowU.

August 18th - Meeting Notes
At this meeting we will be getting an overview of the Filemaker application and learning a bit about maintenance and repair on your Mac.

July 21st - Meeting Notes
This meeting we worked hands-on with the Comic Life application, took an in-depth look at Google web applications and reviewed Freeverse gaming.

June 23rd - Meeting Notes
This meeting we will be covering Roxio Toast DVD & CD Burning software and Apple's Pages iWork application.

May 12th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we will cover Preventative Maintenance for your Mac as well as the Best of Mac OS X Tiger Hints straight from MacWorld Expo.

April 14th - Meeting Notes
This meeting will feature an overview of Adobe's Photoshop application. Thanks Tim!!!

March 17th - Meeting Notes
This meeting will feature an in-depth look at Apple's iDVD application. Marilyn will walk us through a hands-on demonstration of this powerful application. We will be covering the latest industry news and of course looking at our top three web site resources.

February 24th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we took an in-depth look at Apple's iPod family and the iTunes application. We also took a look at a couple of our newest podcasts. One on iPod web sites and one on the RAM upgrade we did on my 12" Powerbook.

January 20th - Meeting Notes
This meeting we took a look at RSS feeds (RSS Menu 1.9.5), upgrading your computers RAM and DVD Drive and we reviewed all the events at Macworld 2007.

2006 Meetings

December 2nd - Meeting Notes
We will be previewing iRemember Digital Scrapbooking software at the meeting. What a great time of the year to be getting into scrapbooking. We will have a copy of this software to give away at the meeting for one of our door prizes. There will also be a 20% discount available for TCMUG members to purchase this software.

October 21st - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing the OS X Tiger application Automator, related web site resources and third party software from Automated Workflows ( http://www.automatedworkflows.com ) Ultimate Productivity Automator Action Pack. We will be having a drawing for a free copy of this software package at this meeting as well as for those in attendance can get a 35% discount if they want to purchase the software.

September 16th - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing Mac OS X Services, Smart Folders, the latest industry news and of course looking at our top three web site resources.

Saturday, August 19th - Meeting Notes
We will be reviewing all of the exciting news coming out of the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) that was in San Francisco on August 7th - 11th. We will also be taking a sneak peak at the new Mac OS X - Leopard - 10.5. We will be touching base on Pages from iWork '06 and of course looking at our top three web site resources.

Saturday, July 15th - Meeting Notes

Saturday, June 17th - Meeting Notes
We will bring our digital cameras, have a Sony Photo printer to show - we will do some editing of sample photos with Photoshop Elements and if anyone wants to bring their camera and cords they can take a couple of pictures and put them into iPhoto for fun.

Saturday, May 20th - Meeting Notes
If you didn't have time to catch everything at the recent Macworld in San Francisco, don't worry! We will be showing the Peachpit Meeting-in-a-Box: Macworld San Francisco 2006! "We will bring the tradeshow experience directly to you with a DVD chock full of expert training from some of our top authors - Jim Heid, Maria Langer, David Blatner, Diana Weynand, just to name a few! You'll also see highlights from the show floor and the meeting will include other cool goodies!"

Saturday, April 22nd - Meeting Notes
We took a sneak peak at the new iLife '06 and iWork '06. Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!! We're 4 years old this month. All in attendance helped out with the cake & ice cream.

Saturday, March 18th - Meeting Notes
We previewed a new product from Discover Your Mac, the Spotlight Movie. All about OS 10.4 Tiger's awesome searching feature. We also worked with iCal and publishing calendars to the web. Here are some links to publish your calendar if you do not have a .mac account. iCal Share and iCal World.

Saturday, February, 18th - Meeting Notes
We did an Appleworks project on how to create scrapbook and photo album pages. We did a brief walk through of Apple's new Pages program. We also reviewed the features and benefits of Apple's .Mac online services and even set up our own TCMUG .mac Group.

Saturday, January 21st - Meeting Notes
We conducted the Peachpit Press Photoshop World Boston 2005 trade show experience. This consisted of over an hour of Photoshop tips, techniques, seminars and show highlights.

2005 Meetings

Saturday, November 19th - Meeting Notes
Kevin helped us with a look at backing up your Mac (Get Retrospect Backup for your Mac today! Get the software links presented here.) Also presented a project using Appleworks for the holidays to make gift tags and labels. Scott presented new software in Netscrape and a new browser, Flock. Check out this review of Flock. Looking for the web sites reviewed at the meeting? Go to our links page.

Saturday, September 17th - Meeting Notes
Marilyn previewed us a new software program, Comic Life, to show and then demonstrated how to make a poster.

Saturday, August 20th - Meeting Notes
Scott reviewed the new OS 10.4 applications Spotlight & Dashboard, Kevin talked about recycling old equipment as well as a review of the "phishing" scams to be aware of.

Saturday, July 16th - Meeting Notes
We met at the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts, in New Philadelphia. We were able to use the computer lab full of 12 eMacs and Marilyn gave us a hands-on demonstration of iMovie.

Saturday, June 18th - Meeting Notes
We met at the TCH Educational Service Center in New Philadelphia.

Saturday. May 14th - Meeting Notes
We are going to be getting to know the latest Mac OS release, "Tiger", 10.4, reviewing web site building tools and resources and going over Mac support web sites.

Saturday, April 16th - Meeting Notes
We celebrated our 3rd birthday with cake & ice cream!! We reviewed blogging and gaming.

Saturday, March 19th - Meeting Notes
We met at the Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts, where we were able to use the computer lab full of 12 eMacs! We had an Appleworks workshop for this meeting and we covered Word Processing, Draw, Spreadsheet and the basic set up and overview of the application. At the meeting we also talked about the article that ran in the Times Reporter on 3/13, "Spyware, The Menace Within". The TCMUG sent in our feedback to the TR editor and it can be read here.

Saturday, February 19th - Meeting Notes
Paul gave us a review of the new iPod Shuffle. We spent some time going over some freeware and shareware games as well as gaming resources on the web. We also got a chance to look at the new iWork application with Pages and Keynote 2. Get the scoop on the new Apple application Pages vs. Appleworks from Ted Landau at Macfixit.

Saturday, January 15th - Meeting Notes
Kevin covered using Mac OS Keychain application as part of securing your Mac, Scott presented a Keynote on "which new mac is right for you? How do you choose a new computer system? What's important to have, what's not?" and Hayley Roder demonstrated using the online tool PhotoBucket.

2004 Meetings

Saturday, November 20th - iPod Drawing
The drawing for the iPod was held at the Dover Public Library. The winner of the 20GB iPod was Jenny Durr of Massillon. A portion of the proceeds from the iPod raffle will be donated to TCHESC Relay for Life Team, a local effort supporting the American Cancer Society.

Saturday, November 6th - Meeting Notes
We reviewed the 2005 membership structure, Open House recap and discussion, TCMUG officers, board and committee's. Our topic for the meeting was presented by Kevin on dealing with Identity Theft, fraud, online scams/phishing and available resources and planning to help you. You can download the Identity Theft & Security information as a PDF file or view it online here.

Saturday, October 2nd - "OPEN HOUSE". The Tuscarawas County Mac Users Group will be having an "Open House" in New Philadelphia, Ohio at the TCH Educational Service Center, located at 834 East High Avenue. The open house is being held from 2:00PM to 4:00PM and is open to the public. Download the Open House Flyer.
The event is being held to introduce the user's group, founded in 2002, to the community and to raise awareness of our support and increasing exposure of the Apple Computer platform. Instant membership packages will be available to attendees seeking to join at a discounted rate.
The open house is designed for new, intermediate and advanced users of all ages -- the group welcomes all those who use and enjoy Macintosh computers and related peripherals or who have an interest in learning more about the platform.
The day's agenda includes demonstrations of the iPod, iTunes, various Apple computers as well as OS 9 and OS X -- Apple's own operating systems.
Several interactive workstations will be setup for participants to get hands-on with Macintosh technology. This will include AppleWorks office suite, music demos and Internet applications such as the Safari web browser, iChat for instant messaging and Mail.
TCMUG Apple Ambassador Kevin Warrene hopes to see plenty of Microsoft Windows users as well. "We especially look forward to showing how the modern Macintosh works seamlessly with PC's both in the home and at the business level."
Supporters of the event include Apple Computer, Tidbits, Total Training, O’Reilly, Peachpit Press, Chris Breen’s Bungalow, Your Mac Life, AppleWorks Users Group, MacFixit, Version Tracker, Matterform, BareBones Software, Microsoft, David Rohr, Macworld, Allume Software and Bloom's Printing. A new fourth generation Apple iPod is being raffled off, and the event will also include door prizes and numerous other free giveaways.

Saturday, August 14th - Meeting Notes
Scott reviewed using Internet tools that deal with travel, Kevin did an overview on digital camera's and we spent some time planning for the upcoming "Open House". Some follow-up links from Creative Pro regarding "Buying a Digital Camera - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5. Parts 1 & 2 were handed out at the meeting.

Saturday, July 17th - Meeting Notes
We were demonstrating Apple's iSight with Blane & Scott. Paul & Traci reviewed the latest iPod Mini and related information. Blane shared with us the new Apple xServe Server.

Saturday, June 19th - Meeting Notes
Paul showed us Apple's iLife suite of applications.

Saturday, April 24th - Meeting Notes
We will be taking a look at four different genealogy software programs available and their related Internet resources. Also, we will take a brief look at Net Newswire and using RSS for all the latest news right on your desktop. Another cool OS X RSS Application to check out is PulpFiction

Saturday, March 20th - Meeting Notes
We were able to take a tour of the facility and see how they use their Macs in processing our daily news. Thanks to MUG member Mark Judy, Manager of Information Services at the T-R, for setting this up.

Saturday, February 21st - Meeting Notes
We met at a new location, Kent State University Tuscarawas Campus. We were thrilled that we had an Internet connection, finally! Scott showed us the ins and outs of using eBay and Blane talked with us about another great online service, PayPal. Get more information on both of these services on our News page.

Saturday, January 24th - Meeting Notes
We introduced our new membership structure, showing the features and benefits of TCMUG membership. We will also be giving away our first door prize, Matterform Spamfire, email anti-spam and revenge software. Check out the product review (PDF) by our own Scott Daniels.

2003 Meetings

Saturday, November 8th - Meeting Notes
The monthly meeting was held at the Apple store at Easton Towne Center in Columbus. The meeting was attended by all of the officers of the group as well as many of the membership. The Apple store staff presented very informative presentations on Apple's latest operating system, 10.3 "Panther", and Music on your Mac using their iLife suite of applications. We were able to spend several hours at the store browsing the latest software, hardware and peripherals offered, also having a chance to work on any troubleshooting issues and of course got an early start on some Christmas shopping.

Saturday, October 4th - Meeting Notes
We reviewed popular magazines and books to help you with your Mac. The books are now linked on our Resources page. Scott showed us Konfabulator, a program for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets and Kevin did a brief overview of scanning using VueScan.

Saturday, September 13th - Meeting Notes
Kevin provided a brief overview and demonstration of the new World Book 2003 Jaguar Edition. You can download the review here in PDF (2.26MB) format. Scott, Paul & Kevin presented "Must Have Shareware & Freeware Applications". You can download the info on the 14 OS X programs presented here in PDF (735k) format.

Saturday, August 9th - Meeting Notes
Kevin Warrene & Scott Daniels reviewed upgrading to OS 10.2 and an overview of the new OS 10.3 a.k.a. "Panther".

Saturday, July 19th - Meeting Notes
Paul Troyer reviewed and demonstrated our topic iMovie.

Saturday, June 14th - Meeting Notes
Kevin Warrene presented an overview of Appleworks 6.

Saturday, May 10th - Meeting Notes
Kevin Warrene reviewed OS 9 maintenance and troubleshooting, while Paul Troyer presented the OS X version of "When Things Go Wrong". We talked about using utilities such as Norton, Tech Tool Pro and back-up software to help you keep your machine in shape.

Saturday, April 5th - Meeting Notes
Paul Troyer demonstrated Adobe Photoshop 7 for the group. You can get Adobe Photoshop 7.0 at Amazon.com